Oil-can.



Patented Sept. 26, I899. B. LUNDELL.

UIL CAN.

(Application filed New 10, 1898.)

(No Model.)

A TTUH/VE 75 Uivrrnn STATES PATENT Gimme,

CARL LUNDELL, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,724, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed November 10, 1898. Serial No. 696,026. (No model.)

To all vt'lmm it may concern;

Be it known that I, CARL LUNDELL, a citizen of Sweden, residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to oil-cans and to means for forcing oil therefrom; and the object thereof is to provide devices of this class which are simple in construction and operation and by means of which the intricate parts of machinery may be more easily and conveniently oiled than has heretofore been possible with devices of this class.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the-accompanying drawing forms a part, said drawing being a vertical section of an oil can or cup provided with my improvement.

In the drawing forming part of this specification the separate parts of my improvement are designated by letters of reference, and in said drawing I have shown an oil-can A, of cup shape, provided at one side with a handle B and in the top thereof with a screwthreaded filling-plug (J, having a vent C The can A is also provided at one side, preferably directly opposite the handles, with a discharge-spout D, which ranges upwardly and outwardly and the base of which is enlarged or conical in form, as shown at E, and passing diagonally through the top of the can, between the handle B and the plug C,'is a tubular pump-cylinder F, provided with an inner end piece G,which projects through the side of the easing into the base E of the discharge-spout, and the end thereof within the base E of the discharge-spout is beveled or inclined and provided with a valve-opening g, closed by a valve 9 which is adapted to open outwardly.

The lower side of the end piece G of the pum p-cylinder is preferably flat an d provided with a valve-opening which is closed by a valve g", which opens inwardly, and mounted in said pump-cylinder is a piston 9 having a rod which passes out through the end cap g of the pump-cylinder and is provided with a knob or head g and mounted on said rod between said knob or head and the cap 9 is a spiralspring It will be observed that the rod of the piston g projects outwardly at an inclination over the handle 13 of the can, and in the operation of the device the can is grasped by the handle B and the piston-rod is forced inwardly by the thumb and outwardly by the spring g and this operation draws the oil into the pumpcylinder and forces it out through the discharge-spout D.

The top of the can is also provided with a finger-piece or ring H, and in the operation of the device as above described one of the fingers is passed through said finger-piece or ring at the same time that the handle B is grasped for the purpose specified, this construction affording better means for operating the piston by the thumb, as hereinbefore set out.

This device is simple in construction and operation and perfectly adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and it will be apparent that changes in and modifications of the construction described may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages. It will also be apparent that by arranging the discharge-spout in line with the handle B and the pump-cylinder the operation of the device for the purpose herein specified is facilitated, and said device is made much more convenient and easy of operation than devices of this class as heretofore constructed.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An oil cup or can provided with a handle, and a discharge-spout connected therewith at the opposite sides thereof, said discharge-spout communicating with said cup or can and connected therewith by means of a conical base portion, the base of which opens into the cup or can, a pump-cylinder obliquely mounted in said cup or can, the lower end of which projects into the conical base portion of the dischargespout, and the upper end of which projects through the top of the cup or can adjacent to the handle, the lower end portion of said pump-cylinder be ing provided with a valved opening which communicates with the interior of the cup or can, and with another valved opening which communicates with the interior of the discharge-spout, and a piston mounted in said pump-cylinder and provided with arod which passes through the upper end thereof adjacent to the handle, and the outer end of which is provided with a knob or head, and a spiral spring mounted on said rod between said knob or head and the end of the pumpcylinder, substantially as shown and described.

2. An oil cup or can provided with a handle and a discharge-spout said dischargespout being provided with a conical base portion, a pump-cylinder mounted transversely of said oil-can and provided with a springpressed piston the rod of which projects therefrom in proximity to said handle, said pumpcylinder projecting at its lower end into the conical base portion of said discharge-spout and provided at its lower end with a longitudinally-flattened lower portion and a downwardly-beveled upper portion said flattened portion being provided with an opening communicating with said oil-can, said beveled portion being provided with a valve adapted to close said discharge-spout, and said opening in said flattened portion being provided with a valve, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 7th day of November, 1598.

CARL LUNDELL. lVitn esses:

F. A. STEWART, K. E. LANGTRY. 

